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68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

#11

Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, and 'conservative media' are alt-right now? Great journalism here. This doofus author clearly shows what he's about.

You're going to have to explain why you don't think Ben Shapiro is alt-right, he's basically a poster child for them.

Sounds like you don't know the difference between right and alt-right.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

#12

Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, and 'conservative media' are alt-right now? Great journalism here. This doofus author clearly shows what he's about.

"He was editor-at-large of Breitbart News between 2012 and 2016. [...] Shapiro is a critic of the alt-right movement."

Sounds like a classic case of the "flat-earth society that has members all around the globe".

In any case, it doesn't get much more fact free and hypocritical than that.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

#13

Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, and 'conservative media' are alt-right now? Great journalism here. This doofus author clearly shows what he's about.

You're going to have to explain why you don't think Ben Shapiro is alt-right, he's basically a poster child for them.

What does 'alt' mean when added as a prefix to left or right to you?

What % of people on the right would you consider alt-right? What % of people on the left would you consider alt-left?

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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presume its okay if its pro-biden :)

The US is proveably 50/50-ish Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience, it seems likely that their algorithms should represent the population. 68% pro Trump does not.

Facebook's audience does not reflect America's population. It is older and more conservative so I'm actually surprised by it's only 68% of the links.

Young people stay away from Facebook by the droves... that is until they get married and start having kids. By then they're older and more conservative.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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This shouldn't be surprising as Trump was recently found in a Gallup poll to be more admired than Obama and Biden. https://news.gallup.com/poll/328193/donald-trump-michelle-ob... > Overall, 18% of Americans name Trump, 15% name Obama, 6% Biden and 3% Fauci. I do find it a tad bit curious that Biden, with a mere 6% approval rate, was certified to have won the election and Trump apparently lost it when he had thrice Bi…

at least that voting was in 2020 not 2021.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

#16

Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, and 'conservative media' are alt-right now? Great journalism here. This doofus author clearly shows what he's about.

Ben Shapiro is definitely a fascist and most certainly a racist but that doesn’t make him alt-right.

What the hell is alt-right anyways? As in, what are the fundamental principles of its ideology?

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

#17

Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, and 'conservative media' are alt-right now? Great journalism here. This doofus author clearly shows what he's about.

Shapiros history of consistent homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic vitrol sure do seem consistent with everything I hear from people in the alt right movement and validates them.

He also claims he is not alt right, not homophobic, and not racist. So there is that.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

#18

Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, and 'conservative media' are alt-right now? Great journalism here. This doofus author clearly shows what he's about.

Ben Shapiro is definitely a fascist and most certainly a racist but that doesn’t make him alt-right. What the hell is alt-right anyways? As in, what are the fundamental principles of its ideology?

How do you determine who is a fascist?

Do you take into account any counter-evidence when making such a deduction?

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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post #17

Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, and 'conservative media' are alt-right now? Great journalism here. This doofus author clearly shows what he's about.

Shapiros history of consistent homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic vitrol sure do seem consistent with everything I hear from people in the alt right movement and validates them. He also claims he is not alt right, not homophobic, and not racist. So there is that.

> He also claims he is not alt right, not homophobic, and not racist. So there is that.

Would you claim you're not alt-right, homophobic or racist? You seem like the kind of person who would deny all those labels to be honest.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US is proveably 50/50-ish Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience, it seems likely that their algorithms should represent the population. 68% pro Trump does not.

> The US is proveably 50/50-ish The “ish” does a lot of work there. > Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience is If it doesn't, it would be one of the few media sources that didn't. Why wouldn't it?

Facebook is also not a US-only site. And the international audience almost certainly leans (heavily?) anti-Trump. So there's that.
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